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How can you enhance a excellent experienced side who have secured consecutive championships, featuring a league-cup double with thirty victories from 32 matches?

Recruit a group of ex- pro players that have performed at the highest tier of club football and international soccer as you aim for more trophies.

A Manchester club has an amateur vets team with 9 ex- top-flight players in their active roster.

Two Hundred Twenty-Two Premier League Goals, Three Hundred Twenty-Five International Appearances

Wythenshawe Veterans Over-35s are situated in south the city and compete in the Cheshire-based Vets Division Top Tier.

The lineup this season includes nine ex- Premier League footballers, with a total nearly 1,800 Premier League games.

The elite team also contains 222 Premier League goals and over 320 global caps.

The squad feature Papiss Cisse, who netted 37 goals in over 100 games for Newcastle United after moving to them for £9m from Bundesliga club SC Freiburg in January 2012.

He made his first appearance for the team in their most recent home match against defending champions their rivals and scored all six scores in a six-two victory - including a half-hour opening period hat-trick.

The roster for this season also includes former pros such as English and Liverpool forward Emile Heskey, Hull City and Burnley winger George Boyd, Toffees striker Oumar Niasse, Wigan Athletic defender Maynor Figueroa, City duo Stephen Ireland and Nedum Onuoha and Premier League title winners Joleon Lescott and Danny Drinkwater.

In total, the former Premier League footballers have claimed fifteen big trophies and transferred for total transfer sums of around £123m.

Well-Known Names and International Stars

Ireland started turning out for the team in pre-season this summer through close friend and present team player Blake Norton, and the ex- Republic of Ireland player then invited additional ex-pros, who all play in a midweek nine-a-side game, to join in.

Former Senegal striker Oumar Niasse, who scored 12 scores in sixty-five Premier League matches for the Toffees and still attends their home games, also had his debut versus the opposition - who are located in Liverpool and wear an Blue training kit as their strip.

"My friend Stephen Ireland told me 'join and play, it's enjoyable'," commented the striker.

"After that he told me we were facing a side from the city and the shock I had when I noticed them sporting Blue shirts - I say this is strange for me!

"If you still love the game and you know you can still play, wherever you can kick a ball, what are you going to choose?

"Those fans who come and see are happy and to make someone's day if they watch us competing there and to ask us queries - it's really about the joy of us having a place we can play, with structure of course."

Such is the squad depth at Wythenshawe, he made his first game at full-back.

"That's a little different but then, I love sprinting and just go forward - I'm not defending that much," he added.

"I warn my defender 'I'm not hanging back' and that I'm just going to keep running.

"That movement is what I'm looking for. It's good fun."

Dreamlike' Scenario

In addition to the forward's six goals on debut, Ireland has netted eight in three appearances for the side, while George Boyd scored 5 on his debut match and Joleon Lescott, a centre-half by position, scored a triple in one match as a striker.

Wythenshawe are leading of the Premier Division with three victories from three and a GD of plus nineteen.

One opponent, 38, who features on the wing for Collegiate OB, faced former Wigan defender Maynor Figueroa on Sunday - and had to explain his young boy who Heskey was.

Figueroa has appeared at 2 World Cups for his country, in as well as featuring in more than 200 Premier League games.

"The news was spreading like a rumor they had these ex-Premier League players," said Barrow.

"I think I was a little starstruck facing Figueroa to be honest.

"Also Emile [Heskey] got on and he's has over 60 English caps.

"Our side held our own for a good 20 minutes but then we had a man dismissed and it was hard.

"Our group literally haven't ceased talking about it - I was calling my mum and sibling on the way home.

"They were all friendly, shaking our hands after the match - it was like playing a bunch of normal fellas.

"Now we can't wait for the second fixture."

'We'll Still Win the League'

Andy Kirby coaches the opposition vets side, who won the Premier Division championship last season, along with his co-manager.

"We scored one-nil ahead and had a